Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s current chief executive, has said she will not not run in the upcoming small-circle leadership election.
Lam announced that she would not enter the race on Monday, a day after the nomination period for candidates, which lasts until April 16, opened.
The city’s leadership race was originally scheduled for March 27. In mid-February, Lam and the Executive Council evoked emergency powers to push the election date to May 8, citing the seriousness of the fifth wave of Covid-19.
Lam has presided over a crackdown on free speech and freedom of the press in the city-state, which has become increasingly aligned with mainland Communist China. This, despite the 1997 treaty with Britain that created the "one state, two systems" agreement that allowed for self-government and a separate, western-style legal system until the year 2047.
Under Lam, that legal system has also now more closely aligned itself with mainland China.
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